The UFC is back in Boston for a championship weekend in multiple sports. The promotion has two titles on the line the night before the Patriots try to get back to yet another Super Bowl, leading to a palpable buzz in “Beantown.”

UFC 220 takes place Saturday at TD Garden in Boston. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

In the main event, heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic (17-2 MMA, 11-2 UFC) is in pursuit of UFC history against challenger Francis Ngannou (11-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC). A win would give Miocic a company record three straight heavyweight title defense – yet he’s the underdog to the hard-hitting Ngannou. And for the second straight week to start the new year, our 14 MMAjunkie editors, writers, radio hosts and videographers are split right down the middle at 7-7 between the champ and challenger.

In the co-feature, light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier (19-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) meets upstart challenger Volkan Oezdemir (15-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC), who tore through his first three UFC opponents, all in 2017, to get a quick title shot. Cormier is a more than 3-1 favorite, and he is the only unanimous pick on the card with 14 of 14 taking him to win.

And to open the main card on pay-per-view, Thomas Almeida (22-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) takes on Boston’s Rob Font (14-3 MMA, 4-2 UFC) in a bantamweight bout. It’s a close fight from an odds perspective, but it’s near unanimous with our staff pickers at 13-1 for Brazil’s Almeida.